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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name4.5 superbJute Gyte RessentimentMelancholy, shock and disorientation have been the domain of Black Metal. In more recent years bands like Blut Aus Nord and Deathspell Omega have been creating some angular and off-kilter Black Metal which still pummels and shrieks cavernously into the depths of our collective ennui and anomie. As an extension of that angularity, that pain and that subjectivity, Jute Gyte treads deeper into those blackened catacombs with a 24 tone equal temperament tuning. This allows the sole member to explore quarter tones, to make more complex, more dissonant and more nuanced sounds. It takes a while to get your ear acclimatized but once you regain your barrings it is a blizzard of beautifully pelting notes interrupted by lulls in the aural storm where drifting tones weave surreally like strange snowfall. This album sometimes sounds like the music is warping, the cadences and the timbres give a feeling of melting aggression and then rebirthed angst as the sounds recongeal into a new microtonal beast. It is challenging for sure, but the best music always is. The pay offs are monumentally rewarding too in the end. To listen to a richer, denser riff, complex harmonies which meander in unexpected ways - I love surprises in my music, and this is just phenomenally creative.
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